In linguistics, transitivity is a property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take objects and how many such objects a verb can take. It is closely...

Transitivity is traditionally thought of as a global property of a clause, by which activity is transferred from an agent to a patient. Transitive verbs...

Valency is related, though not identical, to subcategorization and transitivity, which count only object arguments – valency counts all arguments, including...

In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments. In subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb...

utterance Phrasal verb Phrase structure rules Sentence (linguistics) Syntax Tense–aspect–mood Transitivity (grammatical category) Verb argument Verb framing...

and emotion.: 54–61  The valency of a verb is related to transitivity. Where the transitivity of a verb only considers the objects, the valency of a verb...

possession, definiteness, politeness, causativity, clusivity, interrogatives, transitivity, valency, polarity, telicity, volition, mirativity, evidentiality, animacy...

number of potential forms. Transitivity is a thoroughgoing division of Basque verbs, and it is necessary to know the transitivity of a particular verb in...

dictionary. Complement (linguistics) Copula Grammatical case Object (grammar) Preparatory subject Quirky subject Sentence (linguistics) Subjective (grammar)...

Morphosyntactic alignment Secundative language Transitive verb Transitivity (grammar) Valency (linguistics) "Ditransitive Verbs @ The Internet Grammar of...

Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 71. Dordrecht: Kluwer. (ix + 216 pp.) review Halliday, Michael A. K. 1967–68. "Notes on transitivity and theme in...

Dixon; Alexendra Aikhenvald (eds.). Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity. Cambridge University Press. p. 90. ISBN 9780521660396. Anagnostopoulou...

In linguistics, a stratum (Latin for "layer") or strate is a historical layer of language that influences or is influenced by another language through...

doi:10.1075/sl.34.4.01bug. Dewell, Robert B. (2015). Be- verbs and transitivity. In The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes (pp. 59-64). Philadelphia,...

American Linguistics 71.1, January 2005. Davis, Henry. and Matthewson, Lisa. (2009). Issues in Salish Syntax and Semantics. Language and Linguistics Compass...

ISBN 978-0-19-922627-6. Halliday, M. (1967), "Notes on Transitivity and Theme in English (Part 2)", Journal of Linguistics, 3: 206 Ladd, Robert D. (1980), The structure...

subjects (regardless of verb transitivity) are marked (in this case with a null suffix) the same for case while transitive objects take the accusative...

typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations". Causatives and transitivity, edited by Bernard Comrie & Maria Polinsky. Studies in Language Companion...

In linguistics and philosophy, modality refers to the ways language can express various relationships to reality or truth. For instance, a modal expression...

In linguistics, an argument is an expression that helps complete the meaning of a predicate, the latter referring in this context to a main verb and its...

In fact, this use of the term is the one that currently dominates in linguistics. A main aspect of this understanding of complements is that the subject...

Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow...

In linguistics, volition is a concept that distinguishes whether the subject, or agent of a particular sentence intended an action or not. Simply, it...

example. Transitive alignment: certain Iranian languages, such as Rushani, distinguish only transitivity (in the past tense), using a transitive case for...

In linguistics, incorporation is a phenomenon by which a grammatical category, such as a verb, forms a compound with its direct object (object incorporation)...

In linguistics, definiteness is a semantic feature of noun phrases that distinguishes between referents or senses that are identifiable in a given context...

In linguistics, an honorific (abbreviated HON) is a grammatical or morphosyntactic form that encodes the relative social status of the participants of...

Morphological derivation, in linguistics, is the process of forming a new word from an existing word, often by adding a prefix or suffix, such as un-...

In linguistics, word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language. Word order typology studies it from...

In linguistics, syntax (/ˈsɪntæks/ SIN-taks) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central...